John Jenson
Staff Software Engineer at SimpliSafe
Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Jenson is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-impact, scalable systems and shipping products from idea to production. He moves fluently between roles—consultant, architect, technical lead, and manager—pairing hands-on coding with team-building and vendor partnership to drive measurable business outcomes. His background spans frontend design and rapid delivery (React, Chakra UI, component libraries) to reactive backend architecture and scalability problems, and he has a track record of launching first-of-group products quickly by mocking ahead of backend delivery. Based in Wilmington, MA, he emphasizes teaching others to organize for impact while staying an active high-output contributor who prefers working in the code even at senior levels. Notably, he blends design sensibility with system-level thinking, often taking projects from prototype to production while establishing engineering standards.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Russian
Github Skills (10)
dispatch7
notification7
redux6
react5
higher-order-component5
api4
cli3
openapi2
swagger2
msw1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
johnrjenson/JavaVsNode
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
TandemSeven/coding-tests
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches, 5 issues in 9 months
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